Alec Waugh Quotes

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves — or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

In some ways, my naivete saved me.

Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there's something that - you know, they don't come for no reason. It's just that it takes time to explore complexity.

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?

You ever look for the remote control, but you can't find it, so you just decide, "Ah, guess I'm not watching TV. I'm not gonna take two steps and turn it on myself. I'll go to the gym if I'm going to work out."

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.